Drinking-fountain.



"G. E. CRiPPS & N. PRICE.

DRINKING- FOUNTAIN.

APPucmou FILED duua n. 1915.

1,161,622, Patented Nov. 23, 1915.

- gnuc lzl'ord Wu 4004 J f/Var/nan Prwe W UNITED STATES PATENT enrich GEORGE E. 0-;IPPS AND NORMAN PRICE, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE E. CRIPPS and NORMAN Pmce, citizens of the United States, residing at Rochester, in the county of Monroe and Stat e of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Drinking-Fountains; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make. and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawlugs, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in drinking fountains de-' I signed .to he attached to hydrants without interfering with the hose connection and consists of a simple and eliicient device of this nature so arranged thatthe valve w thin thesame may not be easily tampered with.

. vOur invention consists of a simple and elliclent apparatus of this nature having various details of construction, combinations and arrangements of parts which will he hereinafter fully described, shown in the accompanving drawing and then specifically defined in the appended claim.

\Ve illustrate our invention in the accompanying drawing, in which we have shown a vertical central sectional view through the apparatus, parts being shown in elevation.

Reference now-being had/ to the details of the drawings by numeral, 1 designates a hydrant having a threaded boss 2 about an opening therein and to which the boxing 3 is connected, which latter has a flanged threaded cap 4 fitted over oneend and from which a pipe 5 leads which is connected through the medium of the union 6 with the T elbow 7 which in turn is connected to a valve plug 8 fitted in a threaded aperture in the bowl 9. Said valve plug has a central aperture 10 leading therethrougln and 11 is a needle valve adapted to regulate the flow of water into the chamber 12. Said valve stem is mounted in a central threaded aperture in the valve plug and its outer end is pos tioned in the chambered portion 1.3 of the valve plug and may be made accessible for adjustment whcu'the plug H is removed from the threaded aperture in the wall of the bowl. Said plug 8 has an opening in the ('irmmiterem-e thereof, the walls 01 which Specification of Letters Patent. Patented; N 23, 1915, Application filed June 11, 1915. Serial No. 33,622.

threads of the opening leading from the valve plug. Said fountain plug 15 has a shoulc er 17 which engages a eonvexed disk 18 with notches 19 about its circumference, the ends of the teeth intermediate said notches being adapted to engage the inner inclined surface of the bowl and, when the fpuntaln plug is screwed in place, it frictionally holds the disk in the position shown in the drawing, thus allowing the water to make exit from the portion of the bowl above the disk and which will drain through the exit end 20 of the bowl about the valve plug 8.

The operation or our drinking fountain will be readily rnderstood and is as follows: The needle valve is adjusted to allow water to pass from. the hydrant through the form; tain plug and through which water may make enit hy-running down over the edges of the disk 18, about the valve plug and make exit at the opening in the lover-end of the bowl. The amount 01"" water allowed to pass through the fountainplug, it will drinkingfountain made in accordance with our in vention, it will be noted that the same may be attached to any ordinary hydrant without interfering with the hose connection and at the same time so constructed that the valve may beiinclosed in the body of, the apparatus, thus preventing any tampering with its working parts. 7

lVhat we claim to be new is A sanitary drinking fountain for attachment to hydrants, etc., comprising a bowl with threaded openings formed diametrically opposite in the walls thereof, a cap fitted in one of said openings and having a chambered portion, a plug with a threaded end engaging the other opening and provided with a longitudiiuil duct therein opening into chambers near the ends of the plug, the inner end of the plug extending into the chambered portion of said cap, the plug provided with a laterally extending opening midway its length, a alve extending through the inner plug chambe and threaded into the adjacent'end of said duct and adapted,

to regulate the flow from the duct to the In testimony whereof we hereunto nfiix lateral opening, a hollow fountain stem, the our signatures in presence of two \VltHQSSGSl. 16 inner vend of vhich has threaded engage- 1 GEO E URIPPS menu with said lateral opening, said stem NORHKN PPICF 5 provided with a shoulder, and a disk en- T N gaging said shoulder and adapted to be held 'Witnesses:

thereby with its outer marginal edge against FRANK J. SCHULTZ, the inner surface of said bowl. THOMAS SMITH. 

